Chaucer's England, by Matthew Browne |
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Pàgina 16
... centuries ago been pasted down to the covers of an ancient manuscript purchased a few years since by the British Museum , and now known as the Additional MS . 1862. ' Mr. Bond goes on to say , that when the volume was rebound these ...
... centuries ago been pasted down to the covers of an ancient manuscript purchased a few years since by the British Museum , and now known as the Additional MS . 1862. ' Mr. Bond goes on to say , that when the volume was rebound these ...
Pàgina 52
... century . The solid island is here , and was here , before Julius Caesar ; and , though the surface of the land is changed , and the wild boar is gone from the forest , and the bittern from the marshes , and the heron from the banks of ...
... century . The solid island is here , and was here , before Julius Caesar ; and , though the surface of the land is changed , and the wild boar is gone from the forest , and the bittern from the marshes , and the heron from the banks of ...
Pàgina 55
... century , or thereabouts , the lineaments of the England to which we really belong are first vividly traceable . V. It would be too much to expect that Chaucer should be above the use of the stereotyped forms of the literature of the ...
... century , or thereabouts , the lineaments of the England to which we really belong are first vividly traceable . V. It would be too much to expect that Chaucer should be above the use of the stereotyped forms of the literature of the ...
Pàgina 82
... century ; for these again are not only familiar , they are obvious and natural , not to say inevitable forms of thought . 6 " Among children and the vulgar to this day , the conventional question , How do you do ? ' is often answered ...
... century ; for these again are not only familiar , they are obvious and natural , not to say inevitable forms of thought . 6 " Among children and the vulgar to this day , the conventional question , How do you do ? ' is often answered ...
Pàgina 87
... century did not need to travel far for so very obvious and natural an idea as that of making way- farers amuse each other by the telling of stories . In the second place , Chaucer's ' fable ' is thoroughly English , and widely different ...
... century did not need to travel far for so very obvious and natural an idea as that of making way- farers amuse each other by the telling of stories . In the second place , Chaucer's ' fable ' is thoroughly English , and widely different ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 47 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Pàgina 59 - Mulier est hominis confusio,— Madame, the sentence of this Latyn is, "Womman is mannes joye, and al his blis...
Pàgina 41 - Phlegra with the heroic race were join'd That fought at Thebes and Ilium, on each side Mix'd with auxiliar gods ,• and what resounds In fable or romance of Uther's son Begirt with British and Armoric knights...
Pàgina 178 - But sore weep she if oon of hem were deed, Or if men smoot it with a yerde smerte : And al was conscience and tendre herte.
Pàgina 92 - The MILLER was a stout carl for the nones: Ful big he was of braun and eek of bones; That proved wel, for over-al ther he cam, At wrastling he wolde have alwey the ram.
Pàgina 42 - Glittering in golden coats, like images; As full of spirit as the month of May, And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer; Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls.
Pàgina 281 - For this ye knowen al so wel as I, Whoso shal telle a tale after a man, He moot reherce as ny as evere he kan Everich a word, if it be in his charge, Al speke he never so rudeliche and large, Or ellis he moot telle his tale untrewe, Or feyne thyng, or fynde wordes newe.
Pàgina 191 - Thou rascal beadle, hold thy bloody hand: Why dost thou lash that whore? Strip thine own back; Thou hotly lust'st to use her in that kind For which thou whipp'st her.
Pàgina 167 - Thou shalt not' writ over the door; So I turned to the Garden of Love, That so many sweet flowers bore. And I saw it was filled with graves, And tomb-stones where flowers should be, And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds, And binding with briars my joys and desires.
Pàgina 42 - As full of spirit as the month of May, And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer; Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls. I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.